Before World War II, Tionaga was a small lumber town. Although it had a noble beginning with homes, stores, a planing mill, a few government offices, and a railway station for the Canadian Northern Railway, it had a rather ignominious ending. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in 1941 created the idea that Japanese of Canadian decent were a threat to Canadian security. At that time, Tionaga had become a ghost town but its twenty–five or so cabins remained. Tionaga then became an internment camp for Japanese Canadians. Today, there is little evidence the town ever existed.
Submitted by: Henry Chenoweth